Game apparatus



PATBNTED JAN. 5, 1904` H. RAMME.

. GAME APPARATUS.

APPLIOATIVON FILED APB. 28,4903.

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UNITED STATES atented january 5, i904.

PATENT OFFICE.

GAM E APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,788, dated January 5, 1904.

Application filed April 28, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY RAMI/Ima citizen of the United States, and a resident otFlushing, in the county of Queens and` State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to an improvement in game apparatus, and more particularly such as are played with dice, the object being to provide a simple device which can best-amped or struck from sheet metal at small cost for playing games such as are usually played with dice-as, for example, pokerdice, drop-dead, or' the like; and it consists in a box, preferably though not necessarily made of sheet metal, With an opening or window therein through which the interior is visible,

in connection with a plurality of rotatable dice-wheels and means for imparting a quick rotary impulse to one orali of the dice-wheels and means within easy access from the exterior for throwing any number of the wheels out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved game. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a transverse section, and Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 'Z are enlarged details.

A represents the box, made of sheet metal or the like for the sake of lightness and cheapness and mounted on a suitable base l. At some convenient point-on top,forinstancea glass 3 is secured through which to view the interior and at the same time to inclose and protect the parts inside.

The dice boxes or wheels i 4 are arranged side by side and in alineinent beneath the glass. They are preferablymade of sheet metal,so as to insure lightness and cheapness, and are mounted ou independent spindles 5, which spindles turn in bearings 6 and 7, one of which is in one side of the box and the other in a movable spring-plate 8, pivoted at 9 to a side of the box and provided with a handle 10, by which it is swung aside either up or down to raise that end of the spindle which extends through a curved slot 11 therefor. On each spindle a roller 12, of rubber or other soft material, is secured, and an operat- Serial No. 154,666. (No model.)

ing bar or rod 13, having double cams 14 14 thereon, is arranged to be slid beneath these rollers 12 12 andin contact with one or all of them, accordingly as one or all are down. The operating bar or rod is guided and. held in the openings 15 15 in the ends of the box, and the ends of the rod or bar may be rounded or otherwise fashioned, as at 16, to receive the finger of the operator in pushing it, and stop-pins 17 17 limit the endwise movement of the rod or bar by striking the inner ends of the box. The dice-Wheels mounted on the spindles are on their peripheries marked to indicate dice, as shown at 19, and inside they have an opening or recess 2O opposite each die to receive a ball 2l, which is calculated to drop into one when the wheel has nearly spent its force and stop it with a die uppermost, so that no question of doubt remains as y to the dice thrown.

, In playing a game the rod or bar 13 is pushed endwise with a quick impulse and by the contact of the double cams with the rubber rollers 12 causes the dice-Wheels to whirl. -The operation is repeated by pushing the operating rod or bar its fnll stroke in the opposite direction, or, in other Words, it is alternately pushed one Way and then the other, when it is desired to throw a box out, as in poker-dice or drop-dead, or probably in any game played,the plate 8,supporting the end of the spindle to be lifted, is raised until the pin 23 catches into a hole 24 therefor. In like manner the plates are locked down in their opposite positions, by the pin 23 springing into a hole 25.

A variety of dice games could of course be played, and it is not necessary to specify or describe them, as the mechanism would be the same or practically the same.

Having fully described my invention, What l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A game apparatus comprising a box, means for inspecting the interior thereof, a plurality of loosely-mounted spindles, rotating means carried by the spindles and provided with indicia, means for driving the spindles, a plurality ot' levers pivoted exteriorly of the box, one end of each spindle journaled in the IOO lever, said ends passing through slots formed specification in the presence of two subscribin the box, a pin carried by the outer end of ing Witnesses. each lever and adapted to be received in any one of a plurality of holes to retain the spindle HENRY RAMME' 5 in or out of engagement With the driving Witnesses:

means. C. C. VAN NOSTRAND,

In testimony whereof I have signed this GEORGE W. SCHAEFER. 

